Art triptychsGioacchino Assereto (Italian, 1600-1649)
Tantalus
Ca. 1640-1649
Oil on canvas (117 x 101 cm)
Auckland Art Gallery
Eggenberg Castle
Tantalus was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for either revealing many secrets of the gods, for stealing ambrosia from them, or for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.
#Assereto #Tantalus #art
Tantalus
Ca. 1640-1649
Oil on canvas (117 x 101 cm)
Auckland Art Gallery
Eggenberg Castle
Tantalus was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for either revealing many secrets of the gods, for stealing ambrosia from them, or for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.
#Assereto #Tantalus #art
